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[Grant Edwards]

On 2023-01-02, <avi.e.gross at gmail.com> <avi.e.gross at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used PASCAL before C and I felt like I was wearing a straitjacket at times
> in PASCAL when I was trying to write encryption/decryption functions and had
> to find ways to fiddle with bits. Similar things were easy in C, and are
> even easier in many more recent languages such as Python.

Yonks ago (early 80s), I used Pascal to write an RTOS kernel and call
processing firmware for a cell-site radio running a 16-bit
microprocessor (Z8000). It worked great. However, that Pascal compiler
had a few extensions designed specifically to support embedded systems
use on bare metal -- things like specific length signed/unsigned
interger types (with binary operations), pointers to raw memory and
configurable bounds-checking.

Even with wide use of those extensions it was easier to write code
that "worked the first time" than it was with C. This was in the early
80's, and C compilers didn't hold your hand as much as they do today.

--
Grant